Gioele Barabucci:
On 12/10/23 14:11, Niels Thykier wrote:
```
debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/man1/foo.1
```
is correctly expanded by dh_install (`d/pkg.install`) but it causes
dh_installman (`d/pkg.manpages`) to fail.
Whatever problem you are experiencing, it is *not* that
`dh_installman`does not support globs, because definitely does as
debhelper itself would FTBFS otherwise (`debian/debhelper.mapages`
includes globs).
Hi,
maybe it is the combination of dh_installman + dh-exec?
[...]
Regards,
Behaviour is as documented in `man 7 debhelper` under the "Executable
debhelper config files":
"""
Executable debhelper config files
When using executable debhelper config files, please be aware of
the following:
* [...]
Otherwise, the output will be used exactly as‐is. Notably,
debhelper will **not expand wildcards** or strip comments
or strip whitespace in the output.
"""
(emphasis mine)
As I see it, debhelper is working exactly as it is documented and
therefore as it is expected to do. This restriction of the executable
config feature has been there from "day 1" of supporting executable
files (from the days of debhelper/9) and is unlikely to change given the
current architecture of debhelper.
Best regards,
Niels
